recruited

Recruited is the past tense and past participle of the verb recruit. It describes the act of enlisting or enrolling someone into a group, organization, or program. The term is used across many domains, most commonly in military, employment, and research contexts. For example, a country may recruit volunteers for national service; a company may recruit new staff; and researchers may recruit participants for a clinical trial.

Military recruitment may involve voluntary enlistment or, in some jurisdictions, conscription. Employment recruitment encompasses advertising openings, screening candidates, interviewing, and selecting employees, sometimes conducted by in-house teams or external recruitment agencies. In research settings, participants are recruited to join studies, subject to informed consent and ethical review. In sports, teams may recruit players through tryouts or scouting networks.

As an adjective, recruited modifies nouns to denote individuals who have already joined: “recruited soldiers” or “recruited participants.” The broader noun form is recruitment, and related terms include recruit (the person), recruiter (the person who performs recruitment), and recruitment drive (an organized campaign to attract candidates).

The term carries contextual nuances: it can imply voluntary selection, targeted outreach, or historical compulsory service. Clarity about the recruitment context helps avoid ambiguity regarding how the person joined and under what terms.